Four people, including two children, are missing in a fresh landslide that hit a village in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region today even as the death toll in Sunday's massive mudslide in Fujian Province rose to 35.
A rescue is under way in Majin Village, Cangwu County where four people including two elderly people and two children are missing in a landslide, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Torrential rain has battered Guangxi since the weekend.
The regional civil affairs department said today that at least two people have been confirmed dead, and another one is missing in the region.
The rain has affected 305,200 residents.
Meanwhile, the death toll has risen to 35 with one person still missing following a landslide engulfing a construction site of a hydro project in Taining County in Fujian Province.
The landslide brought down about one lakhcubic metres of mud and rocks, burying a temporary shed at the construction site and damaging offices.
